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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Prometheus vs. ScyllaDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeprometheus.iowww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeprometheus.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatIBMScyllaDB
Initial release20152014201720152015
Current release2.0ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonononoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP RESTADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraActive-active shard replicationyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnononono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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